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NextImg:'Ah, F**k!': Hockey Commentator Takes A Puck To The Face During Live Broadcast
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Buffalo Sabres commentator Rob Ray kept it pushing despite a mid-game injury on Saturday after a puck smacked him in the face during a live TV broadcast.

The moment arrived when New York Rangers defensemen Will Borgen hit the puck over the boards in the first period and struck Ray, a rinkside reporter and a former NHL player who spent most of his career in Buffalo.

“Ah, fuck,” exclaimed Ray, whose profane reaction was picked up by the MSG Network broadcast.

Rob Ray goes "Ahh f*ck" after taking a puck to the face ???? #Sabrehood #NYR pic.twitter.com/l45ypNJnI3

— Buffalo Hockey Moments (@SabresPlays) February 22, 2025

Ray — who has the sixth-most penalty minutes in NHL history and whose fighting habits as a player sparked a league rule change — was left with “gashes above his eye and on his nose” along with a broken pair of glasses, Buffalo’s WIVB-TV reported.

Harry Scull Jr., staff photographer at The Buffalo News, captured a snap of the former NHL bruiser’s face after the hit.

The commentator, who took a hit to the face yet continued to broadcast a game last season, didn’t let his latest encounter with a puck sideline him on Saturday.

Ray, when asked later in the game where the puck hit him, pointed to the “golf ball”-sized bump above his eyebrows as the broadcast cameras zoomed in on his face.

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“Yeah, that’s not normal, that’s not normal,” he said as he looked into the camera.

The Sabres would eventually beat the Rangers in an 8-2 win at home.

Rob Ray is a treasure #Sabrehood #NYR pic.twitter.com/4bLejlExQa

— Buffalo Hockey Moments (@SabresPlays) February 23, 2025